Ebola nurse back to bacon-butty health

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The parents of a British nurse infected with ebola say they knew he was doing
well when he ate a bacon butty in his hospital bed.

William Pooley, 29, is recovering in an isolation unit at the Royal Free
Hospital in London, where he has been for a week after contracting the
disease while volunteering in Sierra Leone. His parents have been able to
see him only “indistinctly” through his plastic protection tent at the
hospital, but have talked to him over a telephone link.

His father Robin told the BBC: “He’s a lot better than we thought he might

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William Pooley, 29, is recovering in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London

2014-09-02 00:01:00.0 PA

William Pooley, 29, is recovering in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London